From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 22 13:10:10 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 22 13:10:08 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BF27537B400 for ; Fri, 22 Dec 2000 13:10:07 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 87125 invoked by uid 100); 22 Dec 2000 21:10:07 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14915.49967.318117.455810@guru.mired.org> Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 15:10:07 -0600 (CST) To: "Marty Leisner" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Gnu system program vs BSD. Opinions ? In-Reply-To: <90984451@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Marty Leisner types: > I probably would be a good idea to a have a "gnu" environment > you can specify at account creation time, to default to the > gnu tools (instead of the bsd ones). It doesn't sound like a bad idea. It probably won't happen unless a committer thinks it's a good idea, though. If you submit a PR with patches that behave the way you want, you've just lowered the threshold for that to happen, as well as making it much more likely to be done the way *you* want it done. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Unix/FreeBSD consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message